Barley Malt Extract
Barley Malt Extract appears in 1,843 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Barley Malt Extract appears in 1,843 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 1,843
- catalogued products
- #429
- usage rank of 247,206
- 390
- named brands represented
- 60%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 372 of 1843 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% Real Ice Cream; 100% whole wheat bread; 100% whole wheat bread to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Barley Malt Extract itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
372 of 1,843 linked records have some flagged component
All 1796 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Barley Malt Extract: top-decile catalog footprint (#429 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #429
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 60%
- Averaged label depth puts Barley Malt Extract in the lower half of the list (60% of list length, mean slot 15.7). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Barley Malt Extract
Across the 1,843 products on this site that list Barley Malt Extract, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.2x more often with Barley Malt Extract than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Barley Malt Extract products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 227 | 12.3% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 65 | 3.5% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 59 | 3.2% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 54 | 2.9% | 4.2% |
| Carrageenan | 49 | 2.7% | 4.5% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Barley Malt Extract
Products Containing Barley Malt Extract
High-volume slice (16 of 1,843) for products naming Barley Malt Extract:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Stabilizer”)
Barley Malt Extract sits among other busy catalog rows (1,843 products, mean score 95.2/100). Comparable product-count neighbours: Stabilizer · Oleoresin Of Paprika · Mozzarella Cheese. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Barley Malt Extract record
Use the 1,843-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Barley Malt Extract and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Barley Malt Extract
Does Barley Malt Extract carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Barley Malt Extract. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Barley Malt Extract? ▼
Barley Malt Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#429 of 247,206), appearing in 1,843 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Barley Malt Extract so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Barley Malt Extract appears in 1,843 products (#429 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Barley Malt Extract). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.